Building Bridges for Historical Learning

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General

The National Symposium 'Building Bridges for Historical Learning: connecting teacher education and museum education' was held at the University of Canberra on the 28th -29th March 2011.

The symposium will started a conversation between teacher educators and museum educators. It is founded upon two premises:

There is still work to be done in the understanding of history education. While we now know a lot about historical literacy and historical thinking, how we transfer these to the classroom is still not fully understood.

Teacher educators and museum educators have traditionally not shared knowledge, even though they both work to promote historical learning.